April 20, 2023: The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Marathon, I-VI!

Kicking off our Treehouse of Horror marathon discussion. Who’s watching and what did you think?

#TheSimpsons Treehouse of Horrors
Season 3: Enjoyed all three, but The Monkey's Paw is the absolute stand-out with its meta critique of The Simpsons phenomenon.
Favorite line – Marge: "Homer, there's something I don't like…about that severed hand." 2/3 pic.twitter.com/hXcaSIQWD9

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#TheSimpsons Treehouse of Horrors IV
Season 5: Loved the Night Gallery-esque framing sequence. My favorite was Terror at 5 1/2 feet, a terrific riff on the classic Twilight Zone episode.
Favorite line – Mr. Burns coming back to tell Homer "You're fired!" before dying again. pic.twitter.com/CV1OWIFg5m

— Joseph Mallozzi 🏴‍☠️ (@BaronDestructo) April 20, 2023

#TheSimpsons Treehouse of Horror VI
Season 7: The last two stories, Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace and Homer3, were equally great.
Favorite line – Chief Wiggum after a desiccated Willie threatens their children: "Oh, right. How are you going to get them? Skeleton power?" pic.twitter.com/xL8Rm4o65M

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Today’s Yum/No…

Taiwanese Castella? Yum/No
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2 responses

Gildermcc

April 20, 2023 at 8:29 pm

Oh, darn, Joe. Missed all but Season 2 episode. sigh. I’ll enjoy them on my schedule.

Meanwhile, it’s raining & hailing in South Texas.

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Line Noise

April 21, 2023 at 1:03 am

I felt the Treehouse of Horrors series started a lot weaker than I remembered but improved quickly. I thought The Raven adaptation was very well done, though.

I’m a massive fan of parody (I saw Weird Al Yankovic live in concert last month and watched the two Hot Shots! movies last week) but it needs to be smart parody, not just a recreating scenes from other movies and TV shows with different characters. And that’s what a felt about several of the episodes so far. They’re not doing anything new, they’re just taking an existing idea and replacing the characters with Simpsons characters and hoping it will be funny.

I laughed at the bit where Homer is in Hell and being force fed an infinite number of doughnuts and still wanting more. I feel seen.

And I remember the gremlin Twilight Zone episode vividly so enjoyed the version on a school bus.

I loved the 3D Homer episode when it first came out. As a computer nerd with an interest in computer animation this was right up my alley! The animation looks very clunky by today’s standards but it was state of the art at the time!

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